TR2000-036

Learning Task Models for Collagen (subsumed by TR2002-04)
Date:September 2000
Author:Andrew Garland, Charles Rich, Candace Sidner, Neal Lesh
Where Published:AAAI Fall Symposium on Learning How To Do Things, Technical Report FS-00-02, November 2000, pages 24-29.

For an application-independent collaborative tool, a key step is to develop a detailed task model for a particular domain. This is a time consuming and difficult task, and seems to require a fairly advanced knowledge of AI representations for plans, goals, and recipes. This paper discusses some preliminary ideas for making it easier to construct and evolve task models, either through interaction with a human domain expert, through machine learning, or in a mixed-initiative system.

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